Seven rebel detainees have been released by principals of the besieged central Prison of Aleppo within 48 Hours for food supply. The swap was coordinated with the Islamic movement of Ahrar al-Sham that said in a statement issued yesterday, ''190 gallons of rice and...

    Foreigners fueled by Islamic fury are rushing to  Syria  to fight President  Bashar Assad  at a faster rate than the flow of rebels into  Afghanistan  in the war against a Soviet-backed regime in the 1980s, analysts say. An...

On October 10, the al-Qaida-affiliated jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra announced that it and allied rebels had taken over Daraa al-Balad, the “old town” section of the capital city of Daraa province in southern Syria.  The city is divided into Daraa al-Balad and Daraa al-Mahata,...

  A team of poets who write lyrics on the spot and an electronica twist help singer from war-torn Syria go global   Bank notes rain down on Omar Souleyman. Beautiful women in silk gowns dance around him. Backed by music of hypnotic intricacy, he...